{"id":2401646,"date":"2026-05-04T15:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2401646"},"modified":"2026-05-04T15:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:46:18","slug":"buckingham-palace-make-surprise-royal-baby-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/buckingham-palace-make-surprise-royal-baby-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Buckingham Palace make surprise royal baby announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Buckingham Palace has confirmed there\u2019s a new royal baby on the<br \/>\nway.<\/p>\n<p>Princess Eugenie and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, are expecting<br \/>\ntheir third child, with the Palace sending out a statement to<br \/>\nconfirm the happy news.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation had mounted that Eugenie, 36, was expecting another<br \/>\nbaby after photos appeared of her with what appeared to be a<br \/>\ngrowing bump.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the arrival of her new baby has been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The Palace said \u201dHer Royal Highness Princess Eugenie and Mr Jack<br \/>\nBrooksbank are very pleased to announce that they are expecting<br \/>\ntheir third child together, due this summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement continued \u201dAugust (aged 5) and Ernest (aged 2) are<br \/>\nalso very excited to have another sibling join the family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And it finished \u201dHis Majesty The King has been informed and is<br \/>\ndelighted with the news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The last sentence was particularly telling as speculation has<br \/>\nmounted in recent months that the princess and her sister,<br \/>\nBeatrice, were being sidelined from the Royal Family following the<br \/>\ndisgrace of their parents, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah<br \/>\nFerguson.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Beatrice nor Eugenie attended the Royal Family Christmas<br \/>\ncelebrations at Sandringham in 2025. Just weeks earlier, their<br \/>\nfather had had his royal titles removed by his brother, King<br \/>\nCharles III.<\/p>\n<p>There was discussion about whether Beatrice and Eugenie might<br \/>\nlose their titles as well. However, the Palace statement underlines<br \/>\nthat Eugenie is an HRH and Princess and seems to be a ringing<br \/>\nendorsement that she will continue with that title.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was accompanied by an image of Eugenie\u2019s two<br \/>\nsons holding a copy of the scan photo of their new sibling.<\/p>\n<p>Princess Eugenie\u2019s third baby will be a fifth grandchild for<br \/>\nAndrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p>The baby will also be fifteenth in the line of succession to the<br \/>\nthrone. They won\u2019t have a title.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"tbmarker\"\/>  <\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source royalcentral.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buckingham Palace has confirmed there\u2019s a new royal baby on the way. Princess Eugenie and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, are expecting their third child, with the Palace sending out a statement to confirm the happy news. Speculation had mounted that Eugenie, 36, was expecting another baby after photos appeared of her with what appeared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2362903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2401646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/A-royal-baby-a-title-and-a-big-question.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2401646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2401647,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401646\/revisions\/2401647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2362903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2401646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2401646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2401646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}